team strategies

Organizations continue to adopt cloud computing at a rapid pace to benefit from increased efficiency, better scalability, and faster deployments.
As more workloads are shifting to the cloud, cybersecurity professionals remain concerned about security of
data, systems, and services in the cloud. To cope with new security challenges, security teams are forced to reassess their security posture and strategies as traditional security tools are often not suited for the challenges of dynamic, virtual and distributed cloud environments. This technology challenge is only exacerbated by the dramatic shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals.

If your organization is one of the 95% of enterprises
that operate in the cloud, you are already grappling
with cloud security. And if your organization is one of
the 85% of companies that use multiple Infrastructureas-a-Service
(IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
clouds, you have additional issues to consider.
Compared to the days when organizations managed
everything on-premises or only had a handful of cloud
deployments, this new multi-cloud world exacerbates
the expansion of the attack surface and makes threat
containment and accountability more difficult. Further,
pressure on security teams to protect everything in
the multi-cloud environment is leading to reactive and
expensive threat management.
If you are a security leader tasked with meeting the
challenges of a multi-cloud environment, eventually
you’ll find that siloed cloud security strategies fall short
of the mark. But don’t wait. Now is the time to consider
a holistic security approach that reclaims control from
dispa

Your customers are demanding better answers, faster-and social media gives them a louder megaphone. Meanwhile, Management is pushing you to reduce support costs and increase team efficiency.Our panel will discuss practical advice and proven strategies for integrating Social into your organization's customer service ecosystem, followed by a live audience Q&A session.

Security is everyone’s job today, from consumers, to system administrators, to executives. If you are doing business, you need to elevate the priority of security across your organization and data center. Over the years, cybercriminals have gotten more advanced and better funded. They are entire teams of highly trained hackers, and they have built it into a very profitable business. Cybercrime is big business. In many cases, states have built their own cyberattack teams. These teams are no less important to their state strategies than their army or navy. And just like these cyber-attack teams are prepared to attack anyone, you too must be prepared to defend against anyone. Whether you know it or not, you are in a cyber war. You need to be prepared.

Software-defined architectures have transformed enterprises to become more application-centric. With application owners
seeking public-cloud-like simplicity and flexibility in their own data centers, IT teams are under pressure to reduce wait times to
provision applications.
Legacy load balancing solutions force network architects and administrators to purchase new hardware, manually configure
virtual services, and inefficiently overprovision these appliances. Simultaneously, new infrastructure choices are also enabling IT
teams to re-architect applications into autonomous microservices from monolithic or n-tier constructs. These transformations
are forcing organizations to rethink load balancing strategies and application delivery controllers (ADCs) in their infrastructure.

Digital disruption is fundamentally changing IT. Today’s organizations are under more pressure than ever to innovate fast and offer a superior experience to every customer.
In this white paper, we explore the advantages that a modernized data center can bring for IT organizations seeking to keep pace in a dynamic environment, and how a software-defined approach can help move them forward. Real-world examples showcase how VMware is enabling IT teams to develop future-proof strategies with a foundation that is ready for cloud environments as well as global expansion and customer acquisitions.
Submit the form to read this latest whitepaper to discover the advantages and how you could develop a future-proof strategy with VMware.

There’s no question about it: purpose-built all-flash storage is an exceptional catalyst for improving data center operations and supporting the transition to the cloud operating model. AFAs’ highly strategic role in both IT and business underscores the need to move storage purchase discussions and decisions beyond the storage team. IT leaders who want to see their organizations reap AFAs’ benefits—performance improvement, productivity gains, and cost savings, among others—should actively define their AFA strategies and oversee storage-related decision making, thus treating storage like the newly strategic asset it has become.
To learn more, visit purestorage.com/cloud.

For 100% operational readiness in a data-driven culture, you need an optimized location platform.
Ovum’s Location Platform Index: Mapping and Navigation can help you identify what you should expect from a platform, and discover the platform that best meets your operational requirements.
Founded in 1985, Ovum has one of the most experienced analyst teams in the industry and is a respected source of guidance for technology and intelligence leaders. Ovum's report assesses and ranks the major vendors in the location platform market with a focus on the mapping and navigation space.
Download this free report to learn more about
Why HERE topped Google to take 1st place in the ranking
The relative strengths and weaknesses for each vendor- including data, enablers, and features
The strategies vendors use to stay responsive towards changes in technology and trends
To understand the location platform market, what constitutes a healthy location platform, and which provider offers the correct portfolio—and necessary flexibility—to achieve mission success, download your copy of this report by completing this form.

In the world of digital interactions, the margin between success and disengagement or abandonment is measured in milliseconds. With the exploding adoption of advanced smartphones and tablets, you need a mobile-first approach to engaging with customers and employees. And as your mobile initiatives are delivered at increasingly rapid rates, the quality and reliability of the mobile apps, mobile web and connected services that support them has become critically important.
For the technology teams delivering customer and employee services in the mobile channel, it is important to understand that performance monitoring solutions which work for the desktop cannot be simply applied to mobile. Managing the mobile end user experience requires an understanding of the challenges posed by the complexities of the mobile environment. This paper will reveal the 4 pillars of mobile performance, plus offer strategies for accurately monitoring mobile end user experience so you can continuously improve.

Many brands are struggling to keep up and are losing ground as consumers demand higher levels of service through a more digital experience. Making matters worse, these changes are driven by a massive generation that is notoriously difficult to engage. Winning consumers over today requires building new capabilities that make brands more agile and provides deeper, more intimate knowledge of buyers.

The implications of getting your next generation data center strategy wrong can be fatal for a cloud and hosting business. The Fueled by NetApp Consulting team has seen a trend with service providers testing the waters with many different go-to-market strategies due to these high stakes.

Marketing value metrics enable marketers to measure the impact of marketing activity against organisational goals more effectively and empowers marketing teams and their leaders to justify and defend their plans to their CEOs and CFOs. The model presented in this free chapter has been developed by Professor Stan Maklan, Dr Stan Maklan and Peter Mouncey from the renowned Cranfield School of Management and provide a metrics-based framework for developing and implementing marketing strategies that are measurable and accountable.

B2C marketers need CMOs and top Customer Insights leadership to guide their teams in driving customer-obsessed strategies. While most think they are, given regular interaction with customers, in reality, most marketing leaders still prioritize internal rubrics over solving actual customer problems.
In this Resonate Webinar, featuring guest, Shar VanBoskirk, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, you’ll learn how to transform your marketing team into creators of post-digital brand experiences and leaders of enterprise-wide customer obsession.
Key takeaways will include:
- Why Marketing today is failing
- How emphasis on customer understanding, brand strategy, and brand experience will turn Marketing into the leader in customer strategies for the entire firm
- What Marketing Leadership must do in order to enact, and maintain this shift

The world of selling is evolving, and the advent of digital platforms has changed the way in which buyers interact with sellers. Sales teams are struggling to sell in this fast and competitive environment and this is evident by the fact that the number of sales people that hit their quota has dropped over time. As a sales leader, it’s time to rethink your sales strategy. In this webinar, we’ll discuss sales strategies and practical insights you can implement to develop sales teams which can outperform in any dynamic market environment. We’ll walk through sales enablement practices and coaching tactics which will help to optimize your sales methodologies. We’ll also discuss sales tools with great ROI which can help increase your sales productivity and accelerate your sales velocity. During this segment, we’ll specifically focus on quote-to-cash technologies and discuss the rising importance of AI-based pricing optimization to streamline and accelerate your sales process.

The following maturity model is designed to help you assess your team’s progress on the journey to BDD maturity. This guide will give you a framework for understanding where your team is now on the road to BDD maturity and help you chart a direct course for taking it to the next level. The transition to BDD often comes with significant bumps in the road, but in our experience it is well worth the effort. Teams with mature BDD practices report higher levels of collaboration across functions and also tend to be more advanced in their DevOps release processes. By shifting testing left with BDD, these teams are delivering faster without sacrificing quality.
By downloading this ebook, you will learn:
o Five BDD maturity levels based on the adoption patterns we’ve seen among our user base and the industry at large
o Strategies for achieving the significant process changes that BDD requires, both within and outside the QA team
o Where your team is today and the milestones that will get you

The sales industry has changed dramatically. Because prospects are more informed and more people (6.8, on average) have to sign off on a single purchase, sales reps have may find it difficult to close deals on their own. Cue the deal review.
When executed correctly, deal reviews give sales reps that support they need—these meetings bring cross-functional teams together and leverage everyone’s experience and connections to move the account forward and shorten the sales cycle. When executed poorly, deal reviews reveal no new insights and waste time better spent on revenue-generating activities.
In this e-book, you’ll learn how to standardize your deal reviews so they are efficient and insightful every time. Apply these strategies to:
Quickly bring everyone up to speed on a deal’s status.
Ensure that sales reps consistently provide the right information.
Make sales reps more accountable for action items agreed upon in the deal review.
Leverage executive connections.

Customer Experience (CX) has become a critical differentiator for companies. Consulting company Forrester has declared that we are in the “Age of the Customer,” and Gartner argues, “A superior
customer experience is one of the few remaining means of sustainable competitive differentiation as the effects of globalization take their toll.”
Despite its widely-recognized importance, CX continues to be a loosely-defined concept, with each organization seeming to have its own definition. Approaches to the discipline and the arrangement of CX teams and related roles vary widely from business to business, leading to some confusion within organizations trying to select a CX approach.
Whether you are just starting your company’s CX journey or you are well on your way, this white
paper will help you develop a thorough understanding of the discipline and the many ways
organizations view and implement CX strategies, processes, and technologies.
We’ll start by defining customer experience and its im

Traditional insurers are no longer safe with insurtechs challenging incumbents to rethink their business and operating models. This mass disruption creates increased pressure on IT to deliver intrinsic business value, including new services, customer touchpoints, and experiences. Successful insurance transformation requires rethinking the traditional IT operating model to allow IT to focus on creating reusable assets that empower lines of business. Doing so increases IT’s delivery capacity, making businesses more agile.
Read this whitepaper to learn:
An overview of the challenges insurers are facing in the industry.
How a new IT operating model – API-led connectivity – allows IT teams to unlock data from legacy systems and drive reuse across the enterprise.
Strategies for using APIs to create a single view of the customer and build connected customer experiences.

Politics, Religion and Economics exert enormous influence on decision-making and the integrity of IT programs—and often result in sub-par decisions that open the door to malicious intrusion or attack. Michael Scheidell and his talented technical team know how difficult it can be to create positive change in an organization, even when obvious vulnerabilities exist. When it comes to navigating the executive suite and undocumented layers of the OSI model, the staff at SECNAP® Network Security have the experience to assist IT management in developing effective strategies to successfully drive security improvements. Download This Paper Now…

Being a manager is hard. Being a great manager is even harder. Learn simple things you can do as a manager to increase performance from both individuals and teams.
Simple strategies like:
• Talk less, listen more
• Play to your (and your team's) strengths
• Manage teams, not individuals
• Accentuate the positive

More and more businesses are embracing workplace mobility and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategies as a method to reduce costs and stimulate productivity. These initiatives give employees, contractors, and business partners the power to remotely contribute, collaborate, and communicate with team members from familiar devices, anywhere around the world. To implement these strategies effectively however, IT teams must provide access to applications, business systems, collaboration platforms, and development environments without sacrificing end-user experiences, hindering their organization’s security posture, or inducing excessive costs. What many are finding is that traditional methods of desktop and application delivery and on-premises Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) often cannot live up to this task, as they introduce new challenges upon implementation.

Being a manager is hard. Being a great manager is even harder. Learn simple things you can do as a manager to increase performance from both individuals and teams.
Simple strategies like:
• Talk less, listen more
• Play to your (and your team's) strengths
• Manage teams, not individuals
• Accentuate the positive

In many organizations, the IT team ushered in the first generation of primitive mobility, issuing pagers to on-call teams and guardians of key corporate systems. And while today, the vast majority of our pagers have been upgraded to smart phones and intelligent devices, many of them are used for little more than prompting us to log into a desktop system or dial a phone. This paper outlines six strategies for extending mobile devices beyond notification to workflows and robust productivity tools within your IT organization.

In business, as in baseball, communication and collaboration are critical to working like a team toward a common goal. Having the right equipment can be a big part of that. Chances are, you’ve already moved some of your business applications to the cloud, which will better prepare you for working communications into your cloud lineup. If you still haven’t unified your communications in the cloud, now might be the best time to act—before the competition gets a competitive edge.
As it turns out, the strategies that work in baseball also make a lot of sense when filling out your cloud solutions lineup. By arranging your cloud investments in the right order, you’ll score more revenue, drive in more ROI and maybe even shut out the competition.